Experience

Experience is the way that progress toward advancement in levels is measured. A character gains experience, or "learns", in a variety of ways and based on a number of factors. In 2016 the experience system was updated to include a separate long-term experience pool, and offline absorption. This page is intended to be an overview of the experience system. Please see the main articles linked just below some sections for additional details.

EXPERIENCE (verb)

The EXPERIENCE verb (commonly abbreviated to 'EXP') is used to displays a character's accumulated experience, training points, fame, and other information.

>exp
          Level: 72                          Deeds: 4              
     Experience: 4638062             Death's Sting: None
Exp. until next: 72438               Recent Deaths: 0              
     Mental TPs: 0                            Fame: 27473062       
   Physical TPs: 38                           Mana: 229/229 max
 (2188 Phy converted to Mnt)
  Long-Term Exp: 0              

Your mind is as clear as a bell.

You feel a strange sense of serenity and find that you are able to reflect on recent events with uncommon clarity and understanding. (Gift of Lumnis active)

Your recent adventures echo powerfully in your mind. (Roleplaying award active.)

You feel the eyes of Lumnis upon you. (Lumnis contest active.)

Experience Pools

Main article: Experience pool

Experience pools are the "buckets" where experience is stored to be absorbed incrementally or at a specific time. As experience is absorbed from the bucket(s), characters gain levels. Absorbed experience is for all intents and purposes permanent.

Field Experience

When a character does something that awards experience, an amount of experience is placed into a field experience pool of unprocessed experience. This pool has a finite size that varies by character, and the amount of experience that goes into this pool is dependent not only on the task that one has just completed, but also the degree to which that pool is filled.

Any unabsorbed field experience is lost during the process of death and resurrection, unless a Chrism is used.

The metaphor of short term vs. long term memory is fairly apt in describing the difference between the two types of experience (unabsorbed vs. absorbed).

Size of Pool

The size of a character's pool for unprocessed experience is determined by its DIS and LOG stats. The formula is:

Field Experience Pool = 800 + LOG + DIS

So a character with a LOG and DIS stats of 100 would be able to hold 1000 (800 + 100 + 100) experience in their pool while one with LOG and DIS stats of 75 each would be able to hold 950 (800 + 75 + 75).

Mind Status

Thresholds for mind-status changes are here as a proportion of (experience in field exp pool)/(pool capacity).

Phrase	Threshold
Completely saturated	> 1.0
Must rest	0.90
Numbed	0.75
Becoming numbed	0.62
Muddled	0.5
Clear	0.25
Fresh and clear	> 0.0
Clear as a bell	0.0

Therefore, a character with a capacity of 1000 will hit "must rest" above 900 unabsorbed experience.

Gaining Field Experience

There are a variety of ways to add to the field experience pool, several of which will be mentioned here.

Hunting

The most common way of gaining experience is hunting. When hunting, experience is gained when a creature one has significantly participated in killing is LOOTed, SEARCHed, or decays on its own.

The amount of experience gained by a character is based on the differential between their own level and the level of the creature killed, as shown here:

Creature Level	Experience Gain
10 or more below character	no experience
1-9 below character	100 - 10x level difference
same as character	100 experience
1-4 above character	100 + 10x level difference
5 or more above character	150 experience

A character continues to gain experience in this way until the pool is filled to its limit, which is determined as described above (800-1000). Continued experience-gaining activities will not add to this pool, though as experience is absorbed, it can obviously be replenished.

Multiple characters can gain experience from killing the same creature, and they need not be present when the creature actually dies (though the character must still be logged in).

Guilds

When a character is learning an Artisan's Guild skill, such as fletching, forging, or cobbling, it earns experience each time a rank is gained in that skill. This rate is based on the number of ranks of the skill the character already has, as well as other skills known. More detailed information is available on the Artisan Guild page.

The same is true for the profession guilds.

Experience is also be awarded by completing Adventurer's Guild tasks.

Profession-Specific Methods

Empaths can gain experience by transferring wounds from others to themselves. There is no experience granted for transferring blood while the patient is still bleeding, transferring from another empath, or if the wounds are self-inflicted.

Clerics and paladins can gain experience by raising others from the dead.

Wizards can gain experience when casting Enchant (925) successfully, with the amount being variable based on the item's status within the enchanting process, and the level of enchantment. They can also gain a nominal amount of experience via Charge Item (517).

Bards can gain experience when loresinging, under certain circumstances.

Sorcerers can gain experience when casting Ensorcell (735) successfully, or infusing a scroll.

Other Methods

All professions can gain experience when successfully disarming and unlocking treasure boxes (most easily trained by rogues). A much smaller amount of experience is granted when successfully using Unlock (407) and Disarm (408) on a treasure system box.

Exceptions

These rates that are described in the above sections are all ideal rates, and based on the character gaining the experience with a fairly empty unabsorbed pool. As the amount of experience in the unabsorbed pool increases, the efficiency of adding to it decreases. For example, if one were to kill 2 rats at level 1, one would expect to (and would gain) 200 experience. However, if one kills 8 rats, one would add less than 800 experience to the pool. The precise rate of accrual decline is:

Accrual Decline Rate = N * (1 - .05 * ⌊InBucket/100⌋)

Where N = nominal amount, InBucket = amount in bucket, and the final number is truncated

The bounty system is another exception in that one is able to greatly exceed a character's unabsorbed pool capacity. Also, the awards of experience from the bounty system are not subject to the diminishing returns effect described above. Experience is only gained from bounty tasks when Field Exp is in normal limits (not saturated). There is a warning when you try to turn in a finished bounty before you can absorb it. The experience given by the reward is applied to Field Exp up until 1250 experience. Any reward in excess of that amount will have half applied to your Field Exp and half will be absorbed instantly.

Absorbing Field Experience

Experience absorption is affected by a number of factors, including one's physical location in the game, one's status with regard to a group, and even health. Experience is absorbed in small pulses over a period of time until the pool is empty. Being in a sanctuary, whether it is natural or created through Minor Sanctuary (213) / Major Sanctuary (220) / Song of Peace (1011), is the same as being "on-node" for the purposes of experience absorption. Contrary to popular belief, Mana Focus (418) does not create a node and does not give any experience absorption benefit.

On-node

• Base Rate: 25
• Logic Bonus: When on a node a character will absorb an additional (Logic Bonus/5) experience per pulse.
• Super Node: Being on a Super Node will add an additional 2 points per pulse.
• Pool Size: For every 200 unabsorbed experience in the experience pool add an additional point per pulse. (Capped at 10 with 2000 field experience.)
• Group: Being joined to another non-F2P character will add an additional point per pulse.

In Town Off-node

• Base Rate: 22
• Logic Bonus: When in town a character will absorb an additional (Logic Bonus/5) experience per pulse.
• Pool Size: For every 200 unabsorbed experience in the experience pool add an additional point per pulse. (Capped at 10 with 2000 field experience.)
• Group: Being joined to another non-F2P character will add an additional point per pulse.

Other Areas

• Base Rate: 19
• Logic Bonus: When outside of town a character will absorb an additional (Logic Bonus/7) experience per pulse.
• Pool Size: For every 200 unabsorbed experience in the experience pool add an additional point per pulse. (Capped at 10 with 2000 field experience.)
• Group: Being joined to another non-F2P character will add an additional point per pulse.

The "other" rooms are normally out of town, though strangely, some rooms (such as the courtyard of the Warrior Guild in Wehnimer's Landing) that are in towns count as if they were out of town.

Other Factors

• Injuries - for major head injuries or nerve damage, the rate of experience absorption is severely diminished
• Death's sting - if one has decayed or suffered a spirit death recently, then only a fraction of the experience is absorbed from the field experience pool
• There is no 40 experience per pulse hard cap (which was previously stated here). It is possible to gain 42 experience (or perhaps more) per pulse while saturated (before Gift of Lumnis or other experience multipliers are taken into consideration).

Long-term Experience

The long-term experience pool was introduced in 2016. Experience absorbed from the long-term pool is not increased by roleplaying awards, Gift of Lumnis, or other similar boosts. Experience in the long-term pool is normally absorbed at a rate of 250 experience points per day, but has no cap on the number of points that it can hold. Every night at midnight, characters with long-term experience stored will get one 250 exp pulse (they do not have to be online to get it).

Aside from the daily 250 experience point absorption, characters can also absorb long-term experience via continuing to absorb experience after the weekly Gift of Lumnis has expired. For every ten (10) points of field experience absorbed while outside of the Gift of Lumnis period, a character will also absorb one (1) point of long-term experience. That experience is deducted from the pool immediately.

This pool can be added to through Long-Term Experience Boosts, when being healed by an empath, being raised by a cleric, killing boss creatures, or upon retrieving boxes from the locksmith pool.

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Gift of Lumnis

Main article: Gift of Lumnis

Gift of Lumnis (commonly referred to as "Gift", "Lumnis", or "XXX") multiplies field experience absorption, increasing the rate at which characters gain levels. It was created to decrease the experience disparity between characters of players who can only play a short time each week, and those who can play more frequently.

Gift occurs once per week for all characters on paid subscription accounts, and has two phases. During the first phase experience points are tripled until a certain amount of bonus experience is gained, and during the second phase experience points are doubled until a different set amount of bonus experience is gained. F2P accounts may purchase Gift of Lumnis tokens to gain access to Gift. In September 2019, Gift was set to be 7300 base experience for both phases, or 21,900 total bonus.

Offline Experience Absorption

Characters on paid subscription accounts will continue to absorb field experience at a reduced rate when not logged in. Point-based and global experience modifiers (Gift of Lumnis, Roleplaying awards, Death's Sting, F2P, etc.) will apply to the offline absorption amounts, time-based experience modifiers (experience boosts) will not. The rate for offline absorption is a flat 15 exp per 10 minutes.

This feature can be toggled on and off using FLAG OFFLINEEXP ON/OFF.

Experience Per Level

Levels by Experience
Experience	Level	Exp Required
2500	1	2500
5000	2	2500
10000	3	5000
17500	4	7500
27500	5	10000
40000	6	12500
55000	7	15000
72500	8	17500
92500	9	20000
115000	10	22500
140000	11	25000
167000	12	27500
197500	13	30000
230000	14	32500
265000	15	35000
302000	16	37000
341000	17	39000
382000	18	41000
425000	19	43000
470000	20	45000
517000	21	47000
566000	22	49000
617000	23	51000
670000	24	53000
725000	25	55000
781500	26	56500
839500	27	58000
899000	28	59500
960000	29	61000
1022500	30	62500
1086500	31	64000
1152000	32	65500
1219000	33	67000
1287500	34	68500
1357500	35	70000
1429000	36	71500
1502000	37	73000
1576500	38	74500
1652500	39	76000
1730000	40	77500
1808500	41	78500
1888000	42	79500
1968500	43	80500
2050000	44	81500
2132500	45	82500
2216000	46	83500
2300500	47	84500
2386000	48	85500
2472500	49	86500
2560000	50	87500
2648000	51	88000
2736500	52	88500
2825500	53	89000
2915000	54	89500
3005000	55	90000
3095500	56	90500
3186500	57	91000
3278000	58	91500
3370000	59	92000
3462500	60	92500
3555500	61	93000
3649000	62	93500
3743000	63	94000
3837500	64	94500
3932500	65	95000
4028000	66	95500
4124000	67	96000
4220500	68	96500
4317500	69	97000
4415000	70	97500
4513000	71	98000
4611500	72	98500
4710500	73	99000
4810000	74	99500
4910000	75	100000
5010500	76	100500
5111500	77	101000
5213000	78	101500
5315000	79	102000
5417500	80	102500
5520500	81	103000
5624000	82	103500
5728000	83	104000
5832500	84	104500
5937500	85	105000
6043000	86	105500
6149000	87	106000
6255500	88	106500
6362500	89	107000
6470000	90	107500
6578000	91	108000
6686500	92	108500
6795500	93	109000
6905000	94	109500
7015000	95	110000
7125500	96	110500
7236500	97	111000
7348000	98	111500
7460000	99	112000
7572500	100	112500
Total	100	7572500

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